Like I said, with Sony hemmoraging Cash like it is going out of style, it is very hard to imagine them not putting EQ1 - F2P into Maint. Mode. They badly need a few Next Big Things... and face it EQ1 is mostly done for as far as that goes. Best they can hope to achieve is a slight proffit if they cut back drastically on developer expenditures.
Honestly, I hope they go more or less static. Then EQEMU can catch up and pass